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ARCOTEL Hotels
Founding and History
ARCOTEL Hotels is a family-owned company which
wasestablished in Vienna in 1989. The ARCOTEL group
combines a personal and individual environment with
international standard and top quality. The private Austrian group
positions itself as a business and city hotel chain with currently
eleven hotels in Austria, Germany and Croatia.
ARCOTEL Hotels
Mission & Vision
Mission
We use the individual strength of each site, encourage our employees to
develop their talents and make room for new ideas and their implementation.
We convince with charm, warmth and joy of work.
On this basis we built on the past 27 years successful business and offer
guests and partners best service.
Vision
As an independent, family-owned hotel group, ARCOTEL Hotels is growing
with its employees on the international hotel market and its synonym for
Austrian hospitality and professionalism.
ARCOTEL Hotels
Management
Dr. Renate Wimmer,
Owner
ARCOTEL Group
Martin Lachout,
CEO
ARCOTEL Hotel AG
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ARCOTEL Structure
ARCOTEL Hotels The core function of the ARCOTEL
Hotel AG includes the management of
all ARCOTEL Hotels as well as
international project development and
research into trends.
The ARCOTEL Hotels & Resorts
GmbH secures with know-how the
operational management structure in
the ARCOTEL hotels.
ARCOTEL Hotels ARCOTEL Hotels currently operates eleven 4-star or 4-star superior hotels with a total of 1.929 rooms in Austria, Germany and Croatia.
ARCOTEL Hotels employs currently 880 members of staff as enthusiastic team at the sites of Berlin, Hamburg, Klagenfurt, Linz, Salzburg, Stuttgart, Wien und Zagreb.
ARCOTEL Hotels
Company Figures
ARCOTEL Hotel AG key figures
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The 3 pillars of the
ARCOTEL company
structure
ARCOTEL Hotels
Real Estate & Leasing
Contracts
Real Estate
ARCOTEL Wimberger Wien
ARCOTEL Nike Linz
Leasing Contracts
All other hotels are longterm rental contracts.
ARCOTEL Hotels
Partnerships
For all centralised purchasing, construction & maintenance
services related the ARCOTEL Group and to new hotel projects.
The company works together with:
AS Handel, EDV & Bauträger GmbH
Konstantingasse 8 I Top 7 I 1160 Wien
Managing Director Christian Buchinger
T +43 1 522 01 79
www.a-s.cc
ARCOTEL Hotels
KR Raimund D. Wimmer
From the founding of the company until his death in March 2006, KR Raimund D.
Wimmer was the managing director and CEO.
KR Raimund Wimmer was active as member in all sectors of tourism for over 25
years. He started his career with a professional education at the college for
tourism at Schloss Klessheim in Salzburg. He studied business administration at
the Vienna University of Business and Economics and economics at the University
of Vienna. He took on the role as European Director and International Vice
President of the Hotel Sales and Marketing Association (HSMA). For several
years he was the President of the marketing group L‘Austria per L‘Italia and
managing board member of the Austria Convention Bureau. He was also Vice
President of the Round Table Conference Hotels Austria, Vice President and
speaker for Vienna‘s 4-star alliance which represents 70% of Vienna‘s 4-star
hotels. He is the author of the book „Winning in tourism through professional
marketing and successful sales“, published (in German) for the Tourismus
Marketing Akademie at Vienna‘s business development institute WIFI.
ARCOTEL Hotels
2015
With December ARCOTEL acquires the 4-star hotel „Parkhotel Castellani“ in
Salzburg and is therefore now present in the west of Austria.
2014
Martin Lachout takes over the position as CEO of the ARCOTEL Hotel AG in
September.
Eight out of ten ARCOTEL Hotels received the TripAdvisor® „Certificate for
Excellence“.
ARCOTEL Hotels improve within the Top 50 ranking of the highest selling hotel
companies in Germany.
The ARCOTEL group achieves ninth place in the category of „Top Average Prices
2013“ with their German hotels.
The Austrian private family-owned company manages to improve 4 places to place
41 in the overall ranking with a total net revenue of EUR 33,7 million.
The ARCOTEL Onyx Hamburg achieves the „HolidayCheck Award 2014“ in the
category „citytrips“.
Milestones
ARCOTEL Hotels
Milestones
2013
Since the end of 2013, ARCOTEL Hotels and ARCOTEL Camino have been
included in the portfolio of the PATRIZIA Immobilien AG – the ARCOTEL Onyx was
purchased by a subcompany of Deka Estate. This demonstrates that ARCOTEL
Hotels is an excellent and interesting partner for investors.
2013 was the year of special honours: the ARCOTEL Hotels mobile website took
one of the top 3 places in the „European Mobile Innovation Award 2013“ and Tempo
congratulated the ARCOTEL Onyx Hamburg with an award for the „Most Stylish
Toilet“. In addition, the “Expedia®-Insiders’ Select™ List“ chose our youngest hotel
as the best hotel in Germany.
6 out of 10 ARCOTEL Hotels obtained the „Certificate of Excellence“ from
TripAdvisor and the hotel.de award „Top Rated Hotel 2013“. All ten ARCOTEL
Hotels received the Booking.com award for perfect service and guest satisfaction.
The ARCOTEL Kaiserwasser Vienna was given the „HolidayCheck TopHotel 2013“
award as the only 4-star-superior hotel in Vienna and its Restaurant UNO was
awarded a toque for the third time in a row by Gault Millau.
ARCOTEL Hotels
Milestones
2012
In May 2012 the ARCOTEL Onyx Hamburg opened its doors to its guests.
With new projects particular importance will be set on environmental awareness and
energy efficiency.
The German ARCOTEL Hotels were listed for the second time among the 50
highest selling hotel companies. They achieved place 48 with a revenue of
EUR 37.121,00 per room. With that the hotel group is located in this range among
the top 10.
2011
According to the TREUGAST Investment-Ranking the ARCOTEL Hotel group was
among the best rated hotel businesses in Austria, scoring an AA rating in 2011, just
as in previous years.
In the investment ranking for Germany our hotels maintained their A rating from
previous years in Berlin, Hamburg und Stuttgart.
ARCOTEL Hotels
Milestones
2010
2010 also marked the beginning of ARCOTEL Hotels‘ cooperation with the online
agency TrustYou. Since 2008 TrustYou has set the standard for reputation
management with software solutions for analysing reviews, comments and tweets
across the social web media. This enables companie‘s to capture reliable reviews
directly from customers and to integrate these authentic customer opinions into
business strategies.
In the same year the partnership with Bookassist started, which is the leading
provider for booking technologies and online marketing services for hotels. In
cooperation with ARCOTEL Hotels, the companies new website was developed
and launched in 2011.
2009
2009 the ARCOTEL John F Berlin was opened. In addition, the ARCOTEL system
management was restructured. The Online Marketing and PR departments were
established and the companie‘s revenue management structure was created. These
measures contributed to doubling the percentage in the group‘s overall turnover
from 15 to 30%.
ARCOTEL Hotels
Milestones
2008
Since 2008 the ARCOTEL Kaiserwasser Vienna has been included in the portfolio
of the Union Investment Real Estate AG open fund. The ARCOTEL John F Berlin
was now a subsidiary of the ARAB Investment Group.
The ARCOTEL Camino Stuttgart was opened in the same year.
2007
This year marked the opening of the ARCOTEL Kaiserwasser Vienna and the
ARCOTEL Rubin Hamburg.
In addition, 2007 also witnessed the re-launch of the ARCOTEL Hotel group‘s
corporate design.
ARCOTEL Hotels
Milestones
2006
The companie‘s founder Raimund D. Wimmer died in 2006. His wife Dr. Renate
Wimmer continued to run the company according to his interest.
2005
The ground-breaking ceremony for the construction of the ARCOTEL Kaiserwasser
Vienna was attended by media representatives, politicians and local residents.
2004
In 2004 the ARCOTEL Hotel group opened the ARCOTEL Velvet in Berlin and thus
successfully entered the German market.
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Milestones
2003
2003 marked the opening of Zagreb‘s first design hotel, the ARCOTEL Allegra,
whose overall concept carries the signature of the architect Harald Schreiber, artist
and industrial designer. Since then Schreiber has worked with Dr. Renate Wimmer
to design several other ARCOTEL Hotels
At the same time, the [email protected] project was launched with the aim of putting
service and staff at the heart of everything that we do. This led to a new vision and
a revision of the mission statement and their implementation in the group‘s
everyday work.
2002
The show room of the first designer hotel in Zagreb – ARCOTEL Allegra Zagreb –
was finished.
A special charity event was held for the AID for AIDS Vienna at the ARCOTEL
Wimberger Vienna: an eight-hour dance marathon „until you drop for a good cause“.
ARCOTEL Hotels
Milestones
2001
In the 5th year of its existence ARCOTEL Hotel AG now had eight hotels. The new
corporate design was clear, contemporary and dynamic – the green was adapted,
the logo streamlined and ornamentation eliminated from the typography. The new
advertising slogan was „Behind a successful day is an ARCOTEL“.
1998-2000
From 1998 to 2000 ARCOTEL invested in the setting up of a comprehensive
management system incorporating state-of-the-art technology.
All hotels were connected to worldwide reservation systems – GDS/CRS – and
since then have used a central customer database.
All hotels apply the standards of the ARCOTEL system manual.
According to the image analysis carried out in 2000, in an unprompted survey on
brand recognition, ARCOTEL was Austria‘s 2nd best-known brand after the Hilton
and ahead of the Ibis and Marriott.
ARCOTEL Hotel AG
ARCOTEL Hotel AG
FN 46904 b registered at Handelsgericht Wien (Commercial Court Vienna)
Chief Executive Officer: Martin Lachout
Address: Konstantingasse 6-8, 1160 Vienna
T +43 1 485 5000-0
www.arcotelhotels.com
Thank you for your attention!
Contact Project Development:
ARCOTEL Hotel AG | Konstantingasse 6-8 | 1160 Vienna |
T + 43 1485 5000-0 | F + 43 1485 5000-12
E [email protected] | www.arcotelhotels.com
ARCOTEL Hotel AG
